Cardinal Health – Dixon, CA
Cardinal Health – Dixon, CA
Location: Dixon, CA
Facility Size: 328,000 sq. ft.
Environment: Medical Distribution Center
Installation Type: Retrofit
Opportunity
Being an essential link between patients and health care, Cardinal Health provides solutions that reduce costs throughout the healthcare industry. With over 30 large distribution centers in the United States, delivering essential medical supplies to hospitals, surgery centers, and end patients is a time-sensitive and life-critical business. Facility uptime, order accuracy, and employee safety are top priorities for the facilities staff at Cardinal Health. The team at Cardinal Health worked with Relumination to assess each of their 30+ distribution center facilities to create an action plan that addressed light levels, energy efficiency, and technology. The plan was simple: improve the working conditions, reduce energy and maintenance costs, and deploy a repeatable and consistent solution.
Solution
Their Dixon, California distribution center was the second site upgraded by Relumination and included an intelligent network control platform to maximize efficiency. With the intelligent control system, the facility staff can control the facility lighting, turning it from an expense to an asset, and dial in the right light levels and motion sensor timeouts for the type of work being done and the time of day. Deploying network controls on-site improved light levels by 50-90% throughout the facility while drastically reducing costly maintenance and electricity expenses. Warehouse employees also like the improvement in light levels, commenting that they feel safer and pick accuracy has improved.
Measured Benefits
$38,066
Annual Energy Savings
$14,242
Annual Maintenance Savings
$12,915
Utility Incentives
$783,792
10 Year Cost Savings
2.64
ROI Yrs
Benefits
Optimized Work Environment
Enhanced Visibility and Safety for Employees
Improved Employee Morale and Wellbeing
Consistent and Reliable Lighting
Environmental Impact
536,532 kWh Saved Annually
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from 84 Passenger Vehicles Driven for One Year
Greenhouse gas emissions from 132 tons of waste sent to the landfill
CO2 Emissions from 47 Homes’ Energy Use for One Year
Carbon Sequestered by 453 Acres of US Forests in One Year